{"id":19265,"date":"2012-08-30T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19265"},"modified":"2012-08-27T21:24:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T00:24:23","slug":"military-death-sentence-overturned-and-its-implications-on-hasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/30\/military-death-sentence-overturned-and-its-implications-on-hasan\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Death Sentence Overturned, and its Implications on Hasan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marine-corps\/only-marine-on-military-s-death-row-has-sentence-overturned-1.186766\">overturned the death penalty sentence<\/a> of former Marine Lance Cpl. Kenneth G. Parker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court threw out Parker\u2019s conviction for one of the two murders and reassessed his sentence for the other crime. The decision continues a trend of military death sentences being overturned on appeal \u2014 11 out of 16 death sentences since 1984. The last military execution occurred in 1961.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parker&#8217;s crime occurred in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling was made\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>due to numerous and substantive procedural and legal failures at trial,&#8221; Judge J.A. Maksym noted. &#8220;Yet no error by the trial judge below should distract us from the overwhelming evidence of guilt.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, his guilt was &#8220;overwhelming,&#8221; but some issues of procedural and legal errors made life in prison without parole more appropriate than the death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>With that background, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/is_nidal_hasan_army_or_islam.html\">is it any wonder<\/a> the military is <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/hasans-trial-again-delayed-over-religious-beard\/\">walking on eggshells<\/a> over its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/military-judge-asserts-right-to-order-fort-hood-shooting-suspect-forcibly-shaved-before-trial\/2012\/08\/22\/da0634a0-ecc0-11e1-866f-60a00f604425_story.html\">very precise handling<\/a> of the case of US Army <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2012\/08\/ap-fort-hood-shooting-trial-forward-without-beard-ruling-nidal-hasan-082712\/\">Major Nidal Malik Hasan<\/a>, accused in the Fort Hood massacre?\u00a0 There is much at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned the death penalty sentence of former Marine Lance Cpl. Kenneth G. Parker: The court threw out Parker\u2019s conviction for one of the two murders and reassessed his sentence for the other crime. The decision continues a trend of military death sentences being overturned on appeal \u2014 11 out of 16 death [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[97,3533,3535,2,3534,1431],"class_list":["post-19265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-fort-hood","tag-kenneth-parker","tag-maksym","tag-military","tag-military-court-of-criminal-appeals","tag-nidal-malik-hasan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}